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• Actors: Christopher Eccleston, John Lynch, David Yelland, Kal Weber
• Directors: Peter Nicholson, Mary Summerhill, Susan McMillan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Warner
• DVD Release Date: October 9, 2007
• Run Time: 147 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000T28Q0A
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,905 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars great adventures, February 27, 2008

By	Michael Eldicott (Cyprus,ex. UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This series of 3 programmes is properly called "Wilderness Men", the "other great adventurers" being Shackleton and Humboldt. The stories of Lewis, Clark and Shackleton are well known (and well represented on DVD), but Humboldt is somewhat obscure, although he was famous enough in his own day. He was a German naturalist who spent 5 years from 1799 in the jungles of South America, studying plants and animals and their inter-relationships. Each programme lasts about 50 minutes and provides adequate basic information. The format is the familiar one of dramatic recreations of certain scenes with photos and modern video of the locations backed by a narration, with contributions from experts, all done to the BBC's usual high standard. The programmes justify 4 or maybe 5 stars, but their presentation on DVD is marred not only by the incorrect name but advertising which can't be fast forwarded or jumped (an inexcusable device; when will DVD makers realise that advertising and self-laudatory sleeve notes serve only to cheapen the product?). It is to be hoped that the issue of this DVD (and Pompeii - The Last Day/Colosseum - A Gladiator's Story) marks a policy of releasing some of the BBC's lesser known programmes. I remember that many years ago they showed a great dramatisation of the life of Charles Darwin, and more recently dramatisations of the hunting down of man-eating big cats (a series I believe called "Manhunters").